Lashes Advances in North Adams Softball League Tourney

iBerkshires.com Sports09:38AM / Wednesday, August 19, 2026Print Story | Email Story

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Logan Stansfield went 3-for-3 with a sacrifice fly on Tuesday to lead Belle Ame Lashes to a 17-15 win and a spot in the finals of the North Adams Women’s Softball League playoffs.

Melissa Girard was 3-for-4 with a double, and Leanne Davis was 3-for-4 at the plate in a win over top-seeded Alternative Living Centers in the final game of the double-elimination tournament’s winners bracket.

ALC will play again Thursday evening at Disanti Field against the winner of Wednesday’s loser’s bracket game between Tower Electric and NAFD/NAPD for a berth in Monday’s championship game.

On Tuesday, Lashes jumped on top with five runs in the top of the first inning and never trailed.

Ashton Smead hit a two-run single, and Jocelyn Duhamel and Girard each doubled in the opening rally.

ALC answered with three runs in the bottom of the first, and the teams combined for 18 runs in the first three innings.

ALC got within a run when it scored four in the bottom of the second to make it 8-7. Dar Fagley, Paulina Perris and Renee Royal got that rally started with consecutive singles.

But pitchers Sarah Sweet of Lashes and Jaycee Blenke of ALC and their defenses quieted the bats through the middle innings.

Each team turned a double play in the fifth.

In the top of the inning, ALC retired Ashlee Bradley on a sacrifice fly and caught a runner attempting to advance to third on the same play.

In the bottom, Lashes second baseman Leanne Davis and shortstop Stansfield turned a 4-6-3 twin killing.

Lashes went to the seventh inning with a 16-12 lead.

It picked up an insurance run when Stansfield reached on a one-out single, moved to third on Breeze Breault’s pinch-hit single to left and scored when Bradley reached on a fielder’s choice.

ALC, which played uphill all night, had one more rally left in it.

With two out and nobody on, the designated home team got five straight hits, including an RBI double from Horton.

But Sweet was able to get a fly ball out to center to leave runners at the corners and preserve the two-run win.

Photos from this game here.

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North Adams Council OKs New Sustainability Committee

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:13AM / Thursday, September 10, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The City Council on Tuesday night moved the establishment of a Sustainability & Tree Commission to a second reading and publication.

Mayor Jennifer Macksey back in February had presented the council with a list of objectives and how she thought a such a committee could support the administration. Councilor Andrew Fitch had raised the issue the year before, referred it to the mayor's office and pushed through the ordinance.

As the process moved forward, he recommended it merge with the Tree Commission, taking on that committee's objectives as part of the city's sustainability mission. It will make recommendations such as regarding climate change and impact on neighborhoods, and be able to seek grants, partnerships and other resources.

The language provided to the council on Tuesday had been reviewed by several committees and commissions and included changes advised by the city solicitor.

"It's been through a whole bunch of different reviews, and it took different tweaks from each of these committees," said Fitch, acting as president that night. "Each of these committees and commission provided excellent guidance of how to make this a little bit stronger, how to make this a little bit better."

Jenny Dunning, a member of the grassroots North Adams Sustainability Task Force, spoke at the beginning of the meeting to endorse the ordinance.

"I just want to say how much I appreciate that the council and the administration has moved forward to figure out a way to make this happen, and it's up for the vote tonight," said Dunning, who serves on the Windsor Lake Commission. "And we've got five of us who are here to support this change."

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